But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

Currently, far too many young children fail to achieve handwriting benchmarks to succeed with the academic written demands of Grade 4. Cursive handwriting was reintroduced on the Ontario Grade 3 ...

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...

Of all the issues our children have to deal with today, a forced return to cursive is what our legislators think they need? In a world where most people text and email, cursive handwriting just ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The ...

Imagine a time when children can’t read historical ... confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations.

For anyone interested in learning about cursive handwriting and teaching it to their children or students, the Iowa Reading Research Center will release a free online course and curricula called ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.